Posts Tagged ‘Scott Walker’
Big Labor Milwaukee Mayor Admits Monopolistic Public-Safety Unionism Harmful to Taxpayers
Tom Barrett’s call to expand Act 10 offensive In the spring of 2012, Big Labor bosses in the Badger State rallied behind union-label Democrat Tom Barrett, the mayor of Milwaukee, who was then challenging GOP Gov. Scott Walker in a special “recall” election. Union officials had instigated the recall as a means of punishing Walker and a…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips August 1, 2013
Holden postal worker files complaint after dues still taken from paycheck despite quitting union Bangor Daily News Online, August 2, 2013 She said she could not discuss details of the charge because of the ongoing investigation. Staff attorneys from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation provided Johnson with free legal assistance and helped…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Clips, July 26, 2013
NRTW Foundation starts Pgh ads Pittsburgh Post Gazette Online, July 23, 2013 The conservative National Right To Work Foundation is starting a decent-sized ad buy in the Pittsburgh market today that warns of union harassment in hospital work places. UPDATE: The NRTW takes issue with the headline of this post calling it “anti-union.” It…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Clips May 3, 2013
Anti-Right to Work Campaign in Ohio Roughs up the Truth www.nilrr.org, April 27th, 2013 While the importance of and need for an Ohio Right to Work law are now being recognized by more and more citizens, grass-roots proponents have yet to agree about what is the most promising approach for reaching their objective. Nevertheless, Big…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips March 15, 2013
H.R. 1120, the Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act House of Representatives Education and Workforce Committee, March 13, 2013 Links to Foundation Story In January 2012, President Obama installed three so-called recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board while Congress was not in recess. In the wake of the president’s unprecedented action, efforts…
Read More“It’s the Union’s Job to Encourage Unrest, Discontent and Unhappiness . . .”
Elijah Grajkowski,Wisconsin public school teacher, explains why he would rather teach in freedom. Read his entire story in the Journal-Sentinel Online. If the teachers union is as wonderful as it claims, then it should have no problem attracting members, without the need to force teachers to join. For years, I have chosen not to be…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips January 25, 2013
Pay Up or Get Sued Washington Free Beacon, January 23, 2013 Steven Cook, president of the Michigan Education Association, circulated an email to local union officials and staff instructing them to monitor revenue streams in light of the right-to-work laws, which are set to go into effect on March 27, 2013. The law allows…
Read MoreFederal Court Upholds Wisconsin Governor’s Public-Sector Unionism Reforms
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation President Mark Mix comments on federal court reaffirmation of Wisconsin’s government union reforms in Wisconsin, as reported in Green Mountain Scribes. With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, three Wisconsin public employees moved to intervene in…
Read MoreA ‘Desperate Rearguard Action’ by a Forced-Unionism Partisan
An Activist Decision Striking Down Wisconsin’s Collective Bargaining Law On September 14, according to innumerable credulous media accounts, Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas finally accomplished for Big Labor what union operatives had previously failed to do in state and federal court and in a series of “recall” elections, including one this June targeting GOP Gov.…
Read MoreFight Over the Future of Government Unions ‘May Be the Most Important Political Battle’ in the U.S. Today
Public Unions: The Largest Political Machine– Walter Russell Mead, TAI The perceptive public-policy and political commentator Walter Russell Mead has many good insights in a post today (linked above) for his blog on the American Interest web site. After recapping and analyzing a Wall Street Journal news story that documents the extraordinarily wide range of…
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